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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2012-07-04 16:16:17 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2012-07-06 17:36:30 +0100
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qemu or qemu-kvm >= 1.1.0 is highly recommended required.
Earlier versions of qemu contained a bug in the qcow2 code which causes qemu to segfault when shutting down and flushing its internal cache, and this can result in data loss. Cherry picked from commit 7996e0882442dc7bac2ab573e2fcac0b488c8cc7 and changed to suit stable-1.18 releases.
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@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ For basic functionality and the C tools:
- look at appliance/packagelist.in and install as many of the packages
that apply to your distro as possible
-- recent QEMU >= 0.13 (0.14 or later is better) with virtio-serial support
+- QEMU >= 1.1.0 is *highly* recommended. In particular earlier
+ versions contain a bug that can cause data corruption.
- kernel >= 2.6.34 with virtio-serial support enabled.